THE ADMINISTRATION: Carter's Morality Play

Jimmy Carter made no effort to
hide his feelings. The "horrible murders" of an archbishop and two
Cabinet ministers in Uganda, he said during his press conference, "have
disgusted the entire civilized world." Two days later Uganda's Idi Amin
Dada appeared to retaliate by forbidding some 200 Americans to leave
his country and summoning them to a meeting this week. Most Amin
watchers expected that he would inflict nothing more drastic than
oratory and theatrics on the Americans; he himself issued reassurances.
But with the unstable dictator, no one could be sure....